# H3887 לוּץ

לוּץ (lûwts), Strong’s H3887: properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede KJV: ambassador, have in…

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*lûwts* — properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede

KJV: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.

Occurs 27 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [לִיץ] vb. scorn
- Qal scorn
- Hiph.
- 1 deride
- 2 Pt. interpreter
- Po‛lel scorners
- Hithp. act as a scorner, shew oneself a mocker

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 42:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=23) — They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
- [Isaiah 28:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/28?v=22) — Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the…
- [Isaiah 29:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/29?v=20) — For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—
- [Isaiah 43:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/43?v=27) — Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
- [Psalms 1:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/1?v=1) — Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat…
- [Psalms 119:51](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/119?v=51) — The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your Torah.
- [Proverbs 1:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/1?v=22) — “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools…
- [Proverbs 3:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/3?v=34) — Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
- [Proverbs 9:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/9?v=7) — One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
- [Proverbs 9:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/9?v=8) — Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.